Bodhisattva Kasyapa said to the Buddha: "There are four kinds of people in the Sangha. It's like with the mango, which is difficult to know when it is ripe. How can we know the difference between violation and non-violation of the precepts?"
The Buddha said: "Oh good man! Basing oneself on the All-Wonderful Great Nirvana Sutra, it is easy to know. How can one know by looking into the Great Nirvana Sutra? For example, a farmer plants rice, and removes the tares in the rice fields. One looks at the field with the fleshly eyes and says that it is a fine field. But when the harvesting comes, now we see that the tares and rice are different. Thus, eight things indeed defile the priest. If thoroughly done away with, we see that he is pure. When a person observes the precepts and does not violate them, it is hard to distinguish with the fleshly eye. If evil arises, this is easy to see. It's like in the case of the tares in the rice fields, which can easily be seen. The same goes with the Bhiksu. If he is able to make away with the eight impure poisonous snakes, we call him pure and a holy field of weal. For him, will be made offerings by humans and gods. It is not easy to see clearly the karmic results of pure deeds with the fleshly eye.”
The Buddha said: "Oh good man! Basing oneself on the All-Wonderful Great Nirvana Sutra, it is easy to know. How can one know by looking into the Great Nirvana Sutra? For example, a farmer plants rice, and removes the tares in the rice fields. One looks at the field with the fleshly eyes and says that it is a fine field. But when the harvesting comes, now we see that the tares and rice are different. Thus, eight things indeed defile the priest. If thoroughly done away with, we see that he is pure. When a person observes the precepts and does not violate them, it is hard to distinguish with the fleshly eye. If evil arises, this is easy to see. It's like in the case of the tares in the rice fields, which can easily be seen. The same goes with the Bhiksu. If he is able to make away with the eight impure poisonous snakes, we call him pure and a holy field of weal. For him, will be made offerings by humans and gods. It is not easy to see clearly the karmic results of pure deeds with the fleshly eye.”
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